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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-30
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TO.DAY's TELEGRApHIC NEWS
AFrightrul NIonstrosity.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb, Nov. 30.-Lon
Mann and John Hcff, wood choppers. upon
returning from work Saturday night last
discovered that come one had made an at
tempt 10 break open the door oftheir hut,
and tracks ia the fresh Garth about the
place indicated hat their visitor had
been there very recently. Mann and
Hoff went in search Of the depredator, and
having beaten about in the brush and un.
dergrowth for more than on hour in all di
rectiops, were about TO give M the search
and return home when they stumbled over
the form of the most frightfnl and hideous
| locking crea ure that ever met The gaze of
human eyes. They described it as un-
d3ub!edly of huc,an form in faca and body
but so frightfu " deformed as to leave only o
faint resemblance. The body as far as
they could observe was entirely naked ard
black and rough. The head bore slight re-
semblsnce to Negroes, the eyes almost pro-
truded frcm their sockets and fangs stood
out from horribly shaped mouth. The
monstrosiiy 10 liz locomotiun ussd its
feet and what were undoubtedly its
arms from The elbows to where the
hands should have been, as forefeet.
The Two men notified their neighbors, and
together they followed the direction taken
by the creature, but gave up the hunt when
night came on without finding trace of it..
| Yesterday about 20 men resumed the hunt
! following the trsil in the snow which led TO
the river, whero il vas lost. 1t is thought
the monstrosily WAS drowned in al attempt
to cross the river. Mann came up toit once
In the brush and when he attempted 10
capture it was severely bitten 10 the hrm.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

Especial Correspondence OF the Alexis. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. d. c.. Nov. so. 1887
1t is currently reported at the Capitol to
day that SO anxious nre the republican Sen
ators to have every thing move along
smoothly in the reorganization of the Senate
that they will be willing to allow Senator
Riddleberger all Of Virei5ia's quota Of the
patronage Of that body. which includes,
among other places, these now ned by ex
Auditor Brown Allen aoi Capt. Asa Rogers,
but that rs yet Senator Riddleberger has
asked for neither
Representative Wise of Virginia. when
asked to-day what he thought Of the advisa.
biity of nominating Southern man for the
second place on the next national demo-
cratic ticket, replied that that was subject
about which he had not thought. and That
he would like TO know who the Southern
mau would he before he would think
about ii.
No appointment has yet been made to fill
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Fishermen Drowned.

ERIE, Pa, Nov. SO.-Jsmes Mclaughlin
and Robert Pryor, fishermen, were drowned
about a half mile off the shore of Presque
Isle yesterday. The manner of their death
Is remarkable. They started out eary yes
terday morning and pulled their GETS, max
ing such large haul that the boat was
laden nearly to the waters edge At this
limo they were two miles from shore ard
he surface of the waller was covered with
slush ice several inches thick. The roer
weighed anchor ard started back but the
wind rising caused the boat 10 pitch heavily
and every lurch caused her to ship large
quantities of sc mi liquid ice. Seeing that it
vas impossible to reach Erie harbor the men
turned for shore, but when half mile out
an unusually heavy foe drove large block o!
ice into the boat and che slid under, disap.
pearing from view. The men struggled in
The water and ice for time but were soon
overcome by the cold, in sight Of crowd
on shore which could render no assistance.
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The Drunlnlers' Tax.

RALEIGH, N. c. Nov. 30--1n the U. S.
Circuit Court here TO day. Judges Bond ard
Seymour presiding, in ths case known as
the drummers' tax case, brought about by a
petition of a. W. Henderson for writ of
nabeas corpus, it IVES adjudged that the pet;'
lloner be discharged. The State appealed
The petitioner, Henderson, was arrested ly the
sheriff of Chowan county for selling goods with
out lcencc. Ho sued out writ of hsbeas cor
pus before Judge Bond and at the hearing before
the lstter m Baltimore last summer, the case WAS
continued to this term of the court
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The North American Reriew for December ha:
been received from its publishers in New York
Its contents are: UNIVERSITIES Hominum, by BIT
Hon. ". E. Gladstone, NJ. P Concerning Shakes
peare, by Lawrence Barrett; A Last Word to Col
Ingersoll. by Rev. Henry NJ. Field, DID; Possible
Presidents-President Cleveland. by Dorman B
Eaton; Dissent in England, by Rev. Joseph Park
err, DID,; The Coming Civilization, by Felix L. Os
wald; Ireland and the Victorian Era, by Alexau'
der Sullivan; An Election in New York, by Ed
gar J. Levey; Land stealing in New Mexico, by
George W. Julian Compulsory Voting Demand
ed by Harris J. Clinton; Presidential Hand
Shaking, by c. L. Norton; National Plsgue-Spots
by George Nelson; Our National Digestion, by
Godfrey (hsmplin No Seetarian Public Schools
by Jeremiah Quin Duty of Leaders of Christian
Thought. by Rev. ]. B WATSON Animal Inteli-
gence. illustrated, by Daniel Winthrop: Church
men and Reformers, by c. E. Whippc and Book
Reviews and Notices
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A Entail Plunge.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 3O.-George Den
ham of the British steamer Ocean King
from London, which arrived here Noyem
Der 16. yesterday afternoon accompanied by
friend, took cartisge for the West End
Soon after leaving The vehicle Captain Den
ham concluded 10 take bath Instead OF
going down the balh-house steps, the cap
tain plunged head foremost into The lake
den obstruction his neck was broken. His
body was brought to this city and turned
over to his frienda.
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VIRGINIA NEyYS.

Monday night Mr.. e. S. Cardeza, Of Han
over county, died suddenly at his n sdence
near the Junction.
MIR. Richard Bryarly, an old aud respected
citizen of Clarke county, living about two
miles north Of White Post died Sunday.
1t is proposed to erect monument il
Richmond to the private soldiers Of the Con
federacy who lost their lives in the service
Twelve prisoners were sentenced to the
penitentiary in the Corporation Court Of
Norfolk yesterday two of them for Is and
20 years.
Col. John W. GIantbau, one of the mos;
prominent anu widely known citizens OF
Jefferson county, w. Va, died on the 10Th,
aged about - years.
A delegation of students from the UniVe!.
sity of Virginia will invite President Ceve.
land and wife to attend the commencement
exercises OF the University next June.
c. N. Marsteiler, near Manassas. was
dreadfuly mang'ed by being dragged by a
h1rse he was leading last Wednesday, the
halter, having slip knot, becoming fas;en
ed to MS wrist.
Yesterday Jas Jordon, one of the crew OF
the schooner Britain. lying at Crittendens
wharf, Oh tU6 river, itll ONcI'
board and was drowned, though every of.
fort was made to save him.
Gen. W. c. Wickham, in consequence of
his appointment az receiver of the Chesa.
peake and Ohio Railroad Company. has re
signed the second vice presidency of the
Newport News aud Mississippi Valley Rail.
road. Mr. john Y Warrington, Of Lexing-
ton, KY, has been elected TO the vacancy.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Richmond and Petersburg railroad was
held at Richmond yesterday The receipts
over and above all expenses were $l000 600
Many improvements were made during the
year The old board of directors and Pres
dent F. r. Scott were re elected.
Thirty hands were taken in the Norfolk
navy yard yesterday to work on the new
dry dock. The cofier.dam at the entrance
to the dock to facilitate the work of exca-
walton will be built 6rst. ard when that is
completed-about the first of the year-five
hundred hands will be put to work digging
and driving piles.
The coroner's jury in the View murder
case in Lexington yesterday returned tho
following verdict: The jury sworn to in
quire how and by what means the said w.
c. j. View came to his death, upon their
oaths do say that w. G. j. Wev came to his
death by blow with n stone in the hands
of Jennie Brown, and that Harry Brown,
Chas. Morris and Mag. Johnson were Access
series to the murder"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-30

THE LONGEST BALLOON VoYAGE.-Prof.
John Wise, wor d famed aeronaui, sailed
through the air ia July, 1859, from st. Louis,
Mo, to Henderson, jefferson county, N. Y,
"a distance in straight line of 1856 miles.
He laid claim to 1850 miles, By reason of
the many turns taken during the trip, which
took his balloon out of a direct course into
circles and curves. This voyage is the
longest recorded in balloon history. The
balloon was in the air over night-a period
of about twenty hours. Prof. Wisa tried
more than once, bat without success, to
equal or exceed the famous trip mentioned.
Finally, few years ago. he left ST. Louis 10
balloon on long trip, for the last time.
He has never been heard from. A reporter
who went with him was found dead come
weeks later 90 the shore OF Lake Michigan.
By reason of this and other disasters, line
suggestion of long air.voysge gives rise in
the public mind to keen sense of the perils
which attend every attempt to ttly in the
sky over nights. Nicholas for December.
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Suicide ola Young Lady.

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Nov. 80 Oxford
Junction, o email town forty miles north OF
here, is greatly excited over suicide which
occurred there yesterday. Ben Cusley and
Charles A. Logan, two prominent young
men, were rival suitors for The hand of Eliza
beth Watereon, II years old, daughter of q
well known farmer. The two men met at
the girls home yesterday morning, when q
desperate encounter euaued the victor 10
have the prize. Cusley WAS finally success
ful, driving his rival eff Mt the point of a re
volver. Logan was the favorite with the
girl and yesterday afternoon she sent bull
let through her beart
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The Bank CT England doors are now SO
finely balanced, that clerk, by pressing q
knob under his desk, can close the outer
doors instantly, and they cannot be opened
again except by special process. This is
done to prevent the daring and ingenious
unemployed of the metropolis from robbing
and other banks are nightly submerged
several feet in water by the action
OF the machinery. In some banks the bull
lion department is connected with the mana
gers sleeping room, and III entrance can.
not he effected without shooting bolt in
the dormitory. which in turn sets in motion
an alarm. If visi or during the day should
happen to knock off one from pile of half
sovereigus the whole pile would disappear,
pool OF water taking its place.
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The existing vacancy in the position Of as
sistant engineer OF the heating room of the
Treasury Department. Mr.. Frank Price,
# Alexandria. strongly endorsed apph'
can't for the place, will be examined as to
skillful qualifications for the place to NOR
row. If he shall pass, the papers in the case
will be considered. If he shall fail, Mr.. VIM:
Moore, the other Alexandria applicant, will
be appointed without further delay.
To show how the mere question OF oihce
ia the absorbing one in politics, it is only ne
cessary to visit the Capitol in the day or the
hotel Hobbies at night. In these places the
chief topic of conversation, not only among
the other people who are drawn here by
the commencement of the Congressional
session, but among the representatives. the
men who are to suggest and frame the laws
of the country, is who shall be the door
keeper of the U. S. House of Representa-
tiyes. The charges against Mr.. Donaldson,
the present incumbent, have assumed tangi'
BILE form, and are being prosecuted by Rsp'
resentative Breckenridge of Arkansas, who,
as previously stated, threatens to make them
matter for Congressional investigation
should Mr.. Donaldson be reelected. Anon g
the charges is one to the effect that w. A,
Smith CT Richmond has been borne on the
rolls OF the House for two years without
having done any duty and without having
furnished substitute. But that is the
slightest charge in the lot, the others invol.
wing various sorts of personal and official
crookedness. Mr.. Hurt, Mr.. Donaldson 8
strongest opponent, seems to be confident
that be will be elected.
A familiar with the proceedings OF the u,
S Supreme Court, and constant attendant
Of ;hrt Court, says he thinks the Virginia
hsbess corpus cases will be decided on Mon
day next. He heard all the argument in
these CASES ani the questions that were
asked BIZ several members of the court. He
says the court ba"irg decided some OF
the questions involved once before by vote
Of five to four, the minority will look upon
those questions 90 res aduticata. and ne
therefore thinks the ruling Of Judge Bond
will be sustained
| Tbs New York Democratic Association OF this
city viii give q banquet here tomorrow night to
Secretary of State Cook and District Attorney
Fellows, of New York. Mayor Hewitt and other
dis.ip gu!shcd New York democrats will be pre-
sent.
The democratic Senators, as stated in this cor
respondoncc yesterday, have determined to op-
pose the swearing in uf any Of the new Senator:
unless Senator Turpe. of Indiana, shall be in
cluded among them. They have slso determ iEcd
| to reoues. Mir Lucas, of West Virginia. TO ahan
don his vain contest and let Mr.. Faulkner BIZ
| sworn in without objection. With both these
Senators admitted the Senate would be tied ii Nj
Riddeberger should ever vote with the democrats
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MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL

New YORK. Nov. 30.-The stock market opened
quiet but iifm With most of the list at from i to
% Fer cent above yesterdays final prices though
several were unchanged. The market was steady
to strong in The early trading, though the move.
ment was confined to few stocks which monopo.
LIKED the business done, and gains in the list
rlnged up to y per cent After 1880 there was
reaction ana the market became quite dull.
prices being carried back to til, neighborhoOd OF
opening figures and in some cases slightly better.
Moaey easy at Bad.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 30.-virginia Is consolidate
Al psst-due coupons 62lh 10-4os 361a new
Ss SO bid to-day.
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A resident of Cambridge, New York. lie
the father OF a email boy and owner OF big
Newfoundland dog One day last summer
when the dog was new to him, he tested bis
life saving qualities. To make the test &C.
Cured to him az be was walking with his
boy and dog by the side Of deep pool of
water; and being An impulsiye person he
at once threw the little lad into the pool.
The dog looked upon this performance with
apparent approval and sat down and
watched with interest the struggles of the
child. The father to save his off5pring's life
was obliged 10 jump into the water, and
when he came out he kicked the dog in a
way calculated to grieve Mr.. Bergh.
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MIR. Nest having been sgain convicted
in New York ofatttmptipg to incite the an
archists of that city TO murder. viii serve
another lie, m of imp isonment, during which
he will be compelled to limit his instruction
relating to the manufacture and use of dyn'
amite bombs TO his prison pals Copiine-
ment and prison fare will not cure Mr..
Most, but thirty.nine, we'll administered,
would thoroughly relieve him of all his an
archistic ideas, and make him good AID
industrious citizen of his adopted country,
or, what would be just as we'll, induce him TO
seek new pasture.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-30

A citizen OF Bagdad, Fla, passing through
neighbo,'s peanut field, helped himself to
some nuts tba! he found here and there laid
on The Top Of stnmps After he had eaten
his gill it occurred to him that the nuts
might might have been poisoned and put on
the stumps to kill crows; and then he Was
sure thu. he felt the poison stealing through
his system He hurried home and sent Il
messenger TO the owner of the peanuts to
ask If they we're poisoned, and while wait
ing for an answer drank melted lard as an
autidote to the poison. He had swallowed
nearly gallon and was indeed feeling bad
" when the messenger returned with the
information that the peanuts were all right.
The citizen doea not banker after peanuts
any more.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-30

AS THE national government has largo
pecuniary interest in the Chesapeake ana
Ohio canal, and as that caoa' is a feeder Of
the national Capital, there is no good reason
why Congress should not make an appro-
priatlon to keep that canal in nayigable
condition. What Congress should do in the
case would be to make an appropriation
large enough to produce the canal from
Cumberland to the Ohio, thereby carrying
ont the design of General Washington' er-
lareiug the supplies and improving the de
fenses Of the national Capital, and also pre-
venting the railroads from having mo-
popoly of the freight trade between The OHIO
and the Atlantic coast.
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PROSPECTIVE WEDDINGs.--Mr. R. l.
Moncure, jr., and Miss Mamie Waller end
Mr.. R. A. Moncureand Miss Agnes Walters ell
ofStafford couRty, will be married at Clifton
Chapel Oh Wednesday evening. December
7th next.
Rev. T. G. Page, of Stafford county, and
Miss Powers, of Clarke county, will be mar
ried early next month.
Mr.. Frank Eustace and Miss Estelle Blox.
ton, ard Mr. JAS Musselman and Miss Rose,
all of Stafford county, will be married next
notwithstanding Star
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COURT OF APPEALS YEsTERDAY.-Ph

COURT OF APPEALS YEsTERDAY.-Ph l.
lFs and wife against Fergerson and as.
Appeal allowed aud supersedess awarded to
decree pronounced by the Circuit Court OF
the city of Petersburg on the 14lh day OF
June, 1887.
Young against Town of Boydton. Ar
gued by A. S. Lee, esq., for plaintiff in error
and G. ]. Faulkner, ESQ, for defendant in
error. and submitted.
Reed against Richmond and Allegheny
Railroad Company. Argued by ]. S. Par
rish. esq for pleintiffin error.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

A witt has been sworn out by Mr.. Mande'
vile against the Governor of Tnllamore
prison for assault The charge ia based
upon the treatment he received at the time
his clothes were stripped from him by the
prison authorities
An attempt to evict tenant named Foley,
at Wexford, Ireland, yesterday, was attend
ed with great difficulty. The evictors, in
order to effect an entrance made a breach
in the wall with battering ram. While
doing this boiling water and stones were
thrown at them by The tenants. The con-
stables brought UP fire. engine and retail
ated by drenching the tenants with water
The occupants ofthe house yielded after an
hours resistance. Ten arrests were made.
The radical journals of Paris oppose NJ.
Ferry as candidate for The presidency, and
accuse him OF bribery and corruption in the
administration of affairs in Tnnis and Ton
quin. A number of members of the
Chamber OF Deputies requested Pres
ident Grevy yesterday not to resign Sew.
eral deputies waited upon NJ Goblet and
endoavored to induce him to join cabinet
with Nj. Clemenceau as premier, with the
object OF retaining IL. Grevy in the prcsi
dency. NJ. Goblet declined.
Inc great nnlonist meeting, for the pur-
pose OF addressing which Lord Harrington
and Mr.. Goschen visited Dublin, was held
in Leinster Hall last night. The chairman
handed to Lord Harrington an address ap
proving his policy and signed by 800 mem
beers of the Chamber OF Commerce. He con.
Guided his speech with reputation of the
charge that he had changed his opinions
with regard to the question of local govern
ment in ireland, and had ignored the ma
tioual sentiment of that country.
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Alex ANDRIA.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 80.

THE GREAT fault with the national, as
wsI, a. with the Southern democracy, ever
since the war, has been its lack of pluck. lis
policy has, since that time, always been de-
fspsiye, and never aggressive, and defensive
warfare rarely succeeds. Though reve'
nue. tariff is a cardinal principle of democra'
cy. the Northern democrats are afraid 20
avow themselves as its supporters; though
Mr.. Tilden was fairly elected President the
Northern democrats were afraid TO demat q
bis inauguration; and though the South
supplies nearly all the votes that elect na
,ional democratic tickets, the Southsrn
democrats are afraid to demand that Inc
next democratic candidate for Vice Prtsi
dent shall be Southern man.
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Harry Houseley was bound over 10 kee

Harry Houseley was bound over TO keep
the peace at HeaDor, Derbyshire, Eng,
recently for sending the following letter ito
Eliza Elliott, female Captain of the Saliva
lion Army Dear Captain just write
to ask you favor. l want to know ii you
will marry me, as have taken fancy to
you. If you don't agree with my favor, it
will be worse for you / either mean to
marry you or murder you. Ifyou say no, 1
mean to do for you, so sou can order your
coffin at once. l know shall have to be
hanged for it, but don't want to go to hell
by myself: want you to go with me. Pre-
pare 10 meet your God. Your comrade,
Harry Houseley"
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AsoUT of the 800 900 voters in Georgia, abou;
two.tbirds of whom are white democrats,
only 81 900 voted at the last Congressional
election, according to the premises assumed
by Mr.. Murat Halstead. the bulldozers OF
that State lot only suppress the repu5ll-
can aud negro vote thereof but also thewhite
and democratic vote. But no man at all
familiar with the character of the white
men of Georgia can conceive the idea that
majority of those men would permit mi.
nority 10 suppress theirvotes. Mr.. Halstead
will have to try again, for such reasoning
az his, as ex-senator Thurman would say,
s.wopt don
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-30

Now THAT the American opponents OF
the Panama canal have announced the iall
ure of that undertaking, and that an Amerl.
can company has sent al engineering party
to eurvey canal route through Nicaragua,
Commodore S'aveo, the president OF the
dredging company that has completed
part of it's contract on the Panama canal
arrives from the Isthmus. and says the
canal will not only be success, hut will be
open to navigation by the time originally
speciGed by Mr.. Lesseps.
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an absurdity

THE FACT that the actual democratic ma,
iority in this State at the recent election was
only 426, no matter from what cause. shows
plainly enough that the work of carrying
Virginia for the next national democratic
ticket will be no chiid's play, and that in
order to attain that desirable object there
must be no more monkeylng with demo.
cratic principles and policy by either the State
or the national democracy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-30

THE FACTS that the President has just re-
moved the postmaster at Cohoes, an often
sive republican partisan, whose Official term
does not expire until next March, and that
he made contributions to the democratic
campaign fund III New York, show that Lis
ideas of civil service reform have undergone
a considerable salutery change, ard that he
is DESTROYS of putting himself in accord with
the vast majority of his party on that sub